Faspo: Oliver Kaiser elected as new president
The general meeting of the Faspo Sponsorship Association elected a new board of directors and president during its annual conference on March 24, 2011, in Hamburg.
The 43-year-old Oliver Kaiser replaces the long-standing Faspo President Bernd Reichstein from office. The 59-year-old Reichstein, who has led the Sponsoring Association since 2003, had already announced last year that he would not be standing for re-election in order to initiate a generational change. In future, he will be active on the Board as Vice President Germany.
Oliver Kaiser was a founding member of Faspo in the mid-1990s. He is founder, president and owner of the IFM Sports Group and was co-owner of Schmidt und Kaiser-Kommunikationsberatung, one of the most successful German sponsorship agencies, as well as the Auratis network.
In addition to Oliver Kaiser Edwin Weindorfer newly elected to the board. As Faspo Vice President Austria, Weindorfer heads the Faspo branch in Vienna. Vice-President Switzerland is still Jean-Baptiste Felten (Felten & Cie). Also new to the Board of Directors are Jörg Pommeranz, Dirk G. Schernikau and Ferdinand Froningwho will be responsible for branded entertainment.
The Sponsoring Association Faspo is the central interest group for the sponsoring industry in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, based in Hamburg, Vienna and Winterthur.
